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George 'Gabby' Hayes

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6. Mai 1885 · Wellsville, New York, USA
Gestorben
9. Februar 1969

Biografie

George Hayes is an American character actor, the most famous of Western-movie sidekicks of the 1930s and 1940s. He worked in a circus and played semi-pro baseball while a teenager. In 1914, he married Olive Ireland and the pair became successful on the vaudeville circuit. Retired in his forties, he lost much of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and was forced to return to work. He played scores of roles in Westerns and non-Westerns alike, finally in the mid-1930s settling in to an almost exclusively Western career. He gained fame as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick Windy Halliday in films between 1936 and 1939. Leaving the Cassidy films in a salary dispute, he was legally precluded from using the Windy nickname, and so took on the sobriquet Gabby, and was so billed from about 1940. In his early films, he alternated between whiskered comic-relief sidekicks and clean-shaven bad guys, but by the later 1930s, he worked almost exclusively as a Western sidekick to stars such as John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Randolph Scott. After his last film in 1950, he starred as the host of The Gabby Hayes Show. He died on February 9, 1969.

Bekannt aus

Poster zu Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt
Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt
Film · 1936 · ★ 7,5
Poster zu Schönste, liebe mich
Schönste, liebe mich
Film · 1932 · ★ 6,6
Poster zu Mit Büchse und Lasso
Mit Büchse und Lasso
Film · 1944 · ★ 6,6
Poster zu Schwarzes Kommando
Schwarzes Kommando
Film · 1940 · ★ 6,4
Poster zu Die Hölle von Oklahoma
Die Hölle von Oklahoma
Film · 1943 · ★ 6,2
Poster zu Showdown am Adlerpaß
Showdown am Adlerpaß
Film · 1934 · ★ 4,8
Poster zu Der Schrecken von Texas
Der Schrecken von Texas
Film · 1948 · ★ 6,3
Poster zu US Marshal John
US Marshal John
Film · 1934 · ★ 4,5
Poster zu Der Held der Prärie
Der Held der Prärie
Film · 1936 · ★ 6,5
Poster zu Unter dem Himmel von Arizona
Unter dem Himmel von Arizona
Film · 1934 · ★ 4,8
Poster zu Abenteuer in Texas
Abenteuer in Texas
Film · 1935 · ★ 4,8
Poster zu Der einsame Reiter
Der einsame Reiter
Film · 1934 · ★ 5,1

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